"The chapters of the first section focus on general concepts about communication and public relations ethics as well as corporate social responsibility. Three sections then deal with: the specific situation of communication and PR ethics in various European countries; the evolution of ethical skills
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of communication professionals; and the interaction between communication ethics and the public sphere. The final two sections offer insights on recent research in public relations, like employee communication and engagement, mentoring in public relations and the evolution of media relations and social media communication." (Publisher website)
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"Seit jeher beuten Menschen andere Menschen aus. Die Geschichte der Sklaverei – lange Zeit als Eigentum an einer anderen Person definiert – endete jedoch nicht mit ihrer rechtlichen Abschaffung. Spätestens mit der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948 ist das Verbot von Sklaverei z
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war eine international akzeptierte Norm, faktisch aber werden Menschen noch immer versklavt und unter schlimmsten Bedingungen ausgebeutet. Da heute nicht mehr Eigentum, sondern die tatsächliche Verfügungsgewalt über eine Person als die entscheidende Kategorie gilt, werden Fälle von Menschenhandel, Zwangsarbeit, Leibeigenschaft oder Schuldknechtschaft oft auch als „moderne Sklaverei“ bezeichnet. Je nach Definition und Erhebungsmethode sind die Zahlen über das Ausmaß moderner Sklaverei sehr unterschiedlich. Die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) schätzt, dass weltweit derzeit knapp 21 Millionen Menschen Zwangsarbeit leisten müssen, wozu auch Menschenhandel mit dem Ziel der Arbeits- oder sexuellen Ausbeutung zählt. Andere Schätzungen liegen deutlich höher. Zwar gibt es Formen moderner Sklaverei auch in reichen Ländern wie Deutschland. Das größte Risiko, in Versklavung zu geraten, stellt jedoch Armut dar, weshalb die regionalen Schwerpunkte vor allem außerhalb Europas liegen. Zudem sind Frauen häufiger betroffen als Männer. Dass Deutschland in vielfacher Hinsicht auch in die „alte Sklaverei“ verstrickt war, also in die Wirtschafts- und Plantagensklaverei sowie den transatlantischen „Dreieckshandel“ des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, dringt erst langsam ins breitere öffentliche Bewusstsein." (Editorial)
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"The Business of Books 2015" looks at the developments and driving forces shaping the international book business today. The study provides data, in most cases going back between five and 10 years, to give the readers a more comprehensive understanding of today’s situation. In particular, the repo
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rt highlights book publishing in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and a number of emerging economies, notably China, Korea, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and Brazil. Furthermore, it also places the book sector in the larger context of the international content and entertainment media. In a separate chapter, one of the key trends governing the transformation of global publishing, the mounting pressure to consolidate, is quantified and analyzed for selected European markets. Altogether, the aim of the study is to put the developments of key markets into context while providing a broad perspective, based on a wide array of key market data from the best available sources." (Executive summary)
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"With a focus on online hate speech, protection of journalism sources, the role of internet intermediaries in fostering freedom online, and the safety of journalists, the report highlights the importance of new actors in promoting and protecting freedom of expression online and off-line." (Back cove
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"BBC Media Action has been involved in media development since it was founded in 1999. Over the years, we have designed and deployed a broad range of evaluation approaches and methodologies to assess the impact of and learn from our work. This has generated much internal discussion: Are we measuring
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the right things? Where can we realistically expect to see change? How much should we spend on evaluation? How can we tell whether that change is sustainable? This paper is our attempt to bring that discussion to the wider media development community. In it, we set out our working evaluation framework and methodology alongside the findings generated by applying this framework to five different capacity-strengthening interventions." (Executive summary)
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"This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formation. From the employment of hate radio in the Rwanda genocide, to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine following events in the Crimea, comm
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unication and the media are widely recognized as powerful tools in conflicts and war. Although there has been significant academic attention on the relationship between the media, conflict and war, academic efforts to understand this relationship have tended to focus primarily on the links between communication and conflict, rather than on communication and peace. In order to make sense of peace it is essential to look at communication in its many facets, mediated or not. This is true within many of the diverse strands that make up the field of communication and peace, but it is also true in the sense that a holistic and interdisciplinary approach is missing from the literature. This book addresses this widely acknowledged lacuna by providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the field, bringing together relevant, but so far largely isolated, streams of research. In doing so, it aims to provide a platform for further reflection of the meaning of, and requirements for, peace in our contemporary world with a focus on de-escalation, conflict transformation, reconciliation and processes of peacebuilding - as opposed to conflict escalation or crisis intervention." (Publisher description)
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"Reporting bias – the media's tendency to systematically underreport or overreport certain types of events – is a persistent problem for participants and observers of armed conflict. We argue that the nature of reporting bias depends on how news organizations navigate the political context in wh
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ich they are based. Where government pressure on the media is limited – in democratic regimes – the scope of reporting should reflect conventional media preferences toward novel, large-scale, dramatic developments that challenge the conventional wisdom and highlight the unsustainability of the status quo. Where political constraints on reporting are more onerous – in non-democratic regimes – the more conservative preferences of the state will drive the scope of coverage, emphasizing the legitimacy and inevitability of the prevailing order. We test these propositions using new data on protest and political violence during the 2011 Libyan uprising and daily newspaper coverage of the Arab Spring from 113 countries. We uncover evidence of a status-quo media bias in non-democratic states, and a revisionist bias in democratic states. Media coverage in non-democracies underreported protests and nonviolent collective action by regime opponents, largely ignored government atrocities, and overreported those caused by rebels. We find the opposite patterns in democratic states." (Abstract)
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"En el marco del proyecto “Mejora del Empoderamiento Ciudadano y la identidad Nacional a través de Comunicaciones Estratégicas para la inclusión Social“ del Banco Mundial este informe realizará aportes para la elaboración e impiementación de políticas públicas de comunicación en el marc
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o de los estándares internacionales en materia de libertad de expresión y la Convención Americana de Derechos Humanos ratificada por la República del Perú. Para ello, se abordarán estos aspectos: importancia de la diversidad y el pluralismo en la actual agenda internacional de protección y promoción de la libertad de expresión; desarrolllo conceptual sobre la necesidad, obligación, potestad y límites de la intervención estatal en este tema; propuesta de agenda prioritaria de temas de políticas públicas de comunicación que Perú debería abordar, y sus fundamentos; recomendaciones de algunas políticas públicas a desarrollar de acuerdo a los más altos estándares interamericanos y ofreciendo como referencia las mejores prácticas regionales y recomendaciones internacionales." (Página 115)
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"The conference called the 'Global Media Forum: The role of media in realizing the future we want for all' was hosted by the Government of Indonesia in 2014 [...] The event brought together journalists, media experts and young communicators from South East Asia and around the world, as a contributio
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n to the ongoing international debate about the importance of media and information and communication technologies for peace and sustainable development. The goal was to advance participants’ understanding of how a free, pluralistic and independent media can contribute. This was in the context of efforts to have media issues being recognised in the UN debates about the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The output of the Global Media Forum was called the Bali Road Map, a key document that is included at the end of this book." (Introduction, page 6)
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"Caricaturistes - Fantassins de la démocratie est publié à l’occasion de la sortie du film-événement éponyme, co-écrit et produit par Radu Mihaileanu et réalisé par Stéphanie Valloatto, qui présente douze grands caricaturistes internationaux, reconnus pour leur courage et leur engagemen
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t en faveur de la démocratie. Radu Mihaileanu et Plantu les ont rencontrés dans leurs pays respectifs. Chacun d’eux a été invité à retracer son parcours, donner les motifs de son combat, raconter les épisodes comiques ou tragiques qui ont ponctué sa carrière. Le livre prolonge ces entretiens avec une large sélection de dessins reproduits, près de 300, et explique le processus créatif des auteurs. Grâce à ces douze lanceurs d’alerte armés seulement d’un crayon, Caricaturistes - Fantassins de la démocratie dit bien l’état du monde d’aujourd’hui et du combat pour la démocratie toujours et partout menacée." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Sending messages is likely to only be effective in conjunction with a comprehensive approach involving a wider range of activities, such as dialogue or training. The media, such as newspapers, radio and television, are the main way that messages to change attitudes and behaviour are communicated in
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campaigns. In conflict situations, the media does not necessarily always either promote or prevent conflict, but still acts as an important, influential force in most societies. The media can help inform decisions and counteract hateful and violent messages, but can also undermine peacebuilding processes. There is no single way that the media affects audiences, and the media cannot ‘inject’ behaviours or attitudes into people’s minds but rather affects the formation of attitudes and beliefs which in turn impact on behaviour. In addition to media interventions, two approaches to sending messages are identified that seem of particular relevance: social marketing and the inclusion of educational messages in entertainment programmes. A number of case studies are identified in the report that cover multi-faceted interventions and include a messaging component. Projects are explored from Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bosnia." (www.gsdrc.org)
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"Im Kontext einer nord-süd-politisch relevanten Information interessiert besonders die Frage der Repräsentation, der Klischeebildung, der Ermächtigung. Ein Foto kann empathisch aufmerksam machen oder zur Schau stellen, aber auch Nähe erzeugen, berühren. Nicht immer folgt auf eine gute Absicht e
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ine gute Praxis. Entwürdigende Fotografie ist, wenn Menschen stilisiert oder als Platzhalter eingesetzt werden. Das kommt in der Fair-Trade-Werbung vor (S.25). Oder wenn sie – wie häufig in der Spendenwerbefotografie von Hilfswerken – viktimisiert werden. Das Foto einer Person kann etwas sehr Privates weltweit und öffentlich kundtun. So zum Beispiel das Foto eines Mädchens ohne Kleider, das – mit Entsetzen im Gesicht – vor dem Napalmangriff südvietnamesischer Flieger weg- und einem Pressefotografen entgegenläuft. Und damit den Augen von Millionen BetrachterInnen in der westlichen Welt, nachdem das Bild mit der Vergabe des World Press Photo Awards 1972 schließlich zum Symbol für die Grausamkeit des Vietnamkrieges wurde. Ein Foto kann Gewalt sichtbar machen. So vermag ein Bild von Gefangenen die Willkür ihrer Peiniger ausdrücken. Der Blick in eine Fabrikhalle mit einem Nähmaschinenpark kann den vernichtenden Charakter eines Systems darstellen. Ein Foto kann vom unmenschlichen Grauen erzählen. Oder es kann Verstoßene rehabilitieren; etwa wenn Personen ihre Versehrungen zeigen (S.17) und dabei Momente des Vertrauens und des Glücks zum Ausdruck bringen. Ein Foto kann Zuversicht schaffen. Der abgelichtete Moment eines Handschlages – wie zwischen Nelson Mandela und F.W. De Klerk – hat ein Zeitalter der Hoffnung auf das Ende der Apartheid eingeläutet. Ein Foto kann ermächtigen. Die Porträts von Trans-Personen der Aktivistin Zanele Muholi sind wie eine Ausstellung der Existenz des Schönen, der Liebe und des Menschseins gegen eine homophobe Stimmung (S.30). Die Kraft eines Fotos im emanzipatorischen Sinn – liegt oft in der Irritation. Ein kleiner Zweifel, ein kurzer Knacks im herrschenden Diskurs. Fotografie kann – das klingt schlicht – Sichtbarkeit schaffen. Die Fotos der Gruppe Lampedusa in Hamburg Professions (S.31), erinnern daran, dass hierzulande viele Menschen eine Vorliebe dafür hegen, sich über ihren Beruf in Wert zu setzten, anderen diese Repräsentation aber gerne aberkennen." (Editorial)
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"The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globali
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zation; and ethical considerations. Many readings first appeared outside the mainstream Western academy, and offer diverse theoretical lenses on culture and communication practices in the world community." (Publisher description)
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"The overarching global trend with respect to media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists over the past several years is that of disruption and change brought on by technology, and to a lesser extent, the global financial crisis. These trends have impacted traditional econom
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ic and organizational structures in the news media, legal and regulatory frameworks, journalism practices, and media consumption and production habits. Technological convergence has expanded the number of and access to media platforms as well as the potential for expression. It has enabled the emergence of citizen journalism and spaces for independent media, while at the same time fundamentally reconfiguring journalistic practices and the business of news. The broad global patterns identified in this report are accompanied by extensive unevenness within the whole. The trends summarized above, therefore, go hand in hand with substantial variations between and within regions as well as countries." (Executive summary, page 7)
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"Global press freedom fell to its lowest level in over a decade in 2013, as hopes raised by the Arab Spring were further dashed by major regression in Egypt, Libya, and Jordan, and marked setbacks also occurred in Turkey, Ukraine, and a number of countries in East Africa. In another key development,
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media freedom in the United States deteriorated due primarily to attempts by the government to inhibit reporting on national security issues. Meanwhile, as a result of declines in democratic settings over the past several years, the share of the world’s population that enjoys a Free press remained at 14 percent, meaning only one in seven people live in countries where coverage of political news is robust, the safety of journalists is guaranteed, state intrusion in media affairs is minimal, and the press is not subject to onerous legal or economic pressures." (Page 1)
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